The University of Cincinnati is a premier, public, urban research university. The College of Medicine is a Top 50 Medical School for Research in the USA. The 2020 Nature index of Life Science for the University of Cincinnati is ranked as Top 100 out of ~3000 Institutes worldwide.

Dr. Jiajie Diao at Department of Cancer Biology, College of Medicine currently has one NIH-funded postdoctoral position available. Detailed information about Diao Lab can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/diaojj/. Prof. Jun-Lin Guan at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Dr. Kai Zhang at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be co-mentors for this project. Please see https://med.uc.edu/depart/cancer-biology/labs/guan-laboratory for some detail of Guan laboratory and https://publish.illinois.edu/kaizhanglab/ for information about Zhang laboratory. In last 3 years, through this productive collaboration, multiple papers have been published in top-tire journals including Fang et al. 2020 Nat Commun, Chen et al. 2020 Nat Commun, Chen et al. 2020 Biomaterials, Khamo et al. 2019 Cell Chem Biol, Chen et al. 2018 Small.

Job Summary: The main research project is to study key protein factors involved in autophagosome biogenesis. We combine in vitro protein-reconstituted systems with cellular analysis. Particular emphasis is on mechanistic studies using advanced biophysical and biochemical techniques including super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule imaging and structural approaches (x-ray crystallography & electron microscope).

Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. or M.D. in Cell Biology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Biology, Biomaterials, Bioengineering, and related fields.

Ideal Qualifications: Strong expertise in cell biology, biochemistry, molecular biology techniques.

Please send your CV to: jiajie.diao@uc.edu. 返回小木虫查看更多